In Main Song/For You And I

IN MAIN SONG/FOR YOU AND I

In this moon of winter and snow

The Hopi Spiritual men fast and pray

To Mother Earth, to Father Sun and

To the Great Spirit,

For you and I.

At dawn our fathers silently do

Smoke their pipe of peace, then each

Rise and emerge from their sacred kiva

And walks toward a shrine to place

Their humble and sacred gifts, prayer-

Feathers, for the soul of man, offered

To the rising Sun,

For You and I.

Facing east they quietly stand and

Breathe their silent prayers for their

Children of the earth, then renewing,

As of old, the spiritual trail unbroken

Since time immemorial, they sprinkle a

Food, the sacred cornmeal, upon the

Mother Earth, to the sky, to the clouds,

To a life below and

To the giver of life,

For you and I.

Thus a prayer has been spoken a gain

At dawn for good health, happiness, an 

Aboundance of food and long life in

The land of the Hopi beyond, 

For you and I.

Thomas Eanyacya

Craib, Arizona